Growth and innovation policy in a small, open economy: Should you stimulate domestic R&D or exports?

B.E. Journal of Economic Analysis and Policy

Volumn 11, Issue 1, 2011, Pages

  Bye, Brita ^a   Faehn, Taran ^a   Grnfeld, Leo A ^b  

^a STATISTICS NORWAY   (Norway)

^b Menon Business Economics   (Norway)

Author keywords

absorptive capacity; computable general equilibrium (CGE) model; endogenous growth; international spillovers; research and development

Indexed keywords

EID: 79961175594     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19351682     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2202/1935-1682.2601     Document Type: Article

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